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...last week of the baseball season is often about as exciting as watching the artificial turf grow. Usually, division titles are sewed up by then, the winning teams are regrouping for the playoffs, and the losers are waiting till next year. Usually. This year produced some of the most hair-raising races since the grass and the hot dogs were real. In three of baseball's four divisions, the final week opened with no certain winner. And in both National League divisions, the top two contenders ended the year by facing each other in a decisive, three-game series...
Clear, sunny skies prevailed till the last float vanished down by the river; feared clouds and rain stayed away all weekend, swelling crowds at all the festivities...
...just wait 'till next year...
...system in use till 1958, films were labeled A-l (suitable for general patronage) or A-2 (morally unobjectionable for adults); shady flicks got a B (objectionable in part for all). Thus armed, the Legion had leverage both before production and during final editing. For instance, an epilogue was added to the film version of Tea and Sympathy so the kind schoolmaster's wife (Deborah Kerr), who helped the troubled schoolboy learn about love, could allude to the guilt she felt afterward. Not till 1953 did a major studio make a profit on a movie with the scarlet letter...
...good news was a 7-0 lead after the first quarter. The bad news was Dartmouth's 30-7 halftime lead. The final score was an anticlimactic 40-7, with Big Green QB Jack Kemp pinpointing 68 per cent of his passes. Penn can't wait till basketball season starts...